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. 2024 Sep 25;54(12):1-2.
doi: 10.1017/S0033291724002071. Online ahead of print.

Letter to the editor regarding 'Is combined antidepressant medication (ADM) and psychotherapy better than either monotherapy at preventing suicide attempts and other psychiatric serious adverse events for depressed patients? A rare events meta-analysis'

Alexander Lisinski  1   2 , Fredrik Hieronymus  1
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Letter to the editor regarding 'Is combined antidepressant medication (ADM) and psychotherapy better than either monotherapy at preventing suicide attempts and other psychiatric serious adverse events for depressed patients? A rare events meta-analysis'

Alexander Lisinski et al. Psychol Med. .
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Keywords: antidepressants; combined treatment; depression; major depressive disorder; meta-analysis; pharmacology; psychiatry; psychoterapy.

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Figure 1.
Forest plot for treatment effect comparing combined treatment with antidepressants and placebo to psychotherapy-only, using corrected numbers of events. Events refer to the number of patient(s) within a specific treatment arm that had a negative treatment outcome (i.e. suicide attempt, psychiatric emergency department visit, psychiatric hospitalization, and/or suicide death). ADM, antidepressant medication; CI, confidence interval; FE, fixed effects; PSY, psychotherapy.
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